Tokyo Zangyo

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942410249

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Tokyo Zangyo by Michael Pronko Pdf

In Tokyo, your job can kill After a top-tier manager in Japan’s premier media company ends up dead in front of company headquarters, Detective Hiroshi enters the high-pressure, hard-driving world of Tokyo’s large corporations. Hiroshi quickly finds out the manager fell from the roof at the exact same spot as an employee suicide three years before. With little more to go on, Hiroshi can’t tell if the manager’s death was a guilt-ridden suicide, a careless accident, or a grisly personnel decision. The only certainty is that Japanese workplaces rely on “zangyo,” unpaid overtime that drives employees to quit—or to kill. Teaming up with his mentor Takamatasu, Hiroshi scours the off-record spending, lavish entertaining and unspoken agreements that keep Japan, Inc. running with brutal efficiency. Working overtime himself, Hiroshi probes the dark heart of Japanese business, a place he’s tried to avoid all his life. Tokyo Zangyo is the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series.

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942410300

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Shitamachi Scam by Michael Pronko Pdf

After the suspicious deaths of a seventy-something woman and a student recluse, Detective Hiroshi tracks a gang of scammers. Hiroshi teams up with Detective Ishii from the women’s crime task force, and together, they search for who’s been ripping off retirees in shitamachi, the old part of Tokyo. With his personal life on hold (almost), Hiroshi finds out who’s behind the scams and who’s behind the scammers—and who will kill for more than the scams.

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942410263

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Azabu Getaway by Michael Pronko Pdf

Money isn’t everything. It’s the deadly thing. After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo’s wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo’s elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager. The abducted girls are the daughters of an international couple who seemed to have it all—a large apartment in the high-end Azabu district, top schools for the children, and a life of happy affluence. Their life falls apart and they are swept up in threats and pursuits for reasons they cannot fathom. Tracking the money and tracking the two daughters leads Hiroshi into Tokyo’s murky financial past and outside Japan’s borders as he discovers how overseas investments and tax shelters are really managed. Hiroshi works with Sakaguchi and Takamatsu and others on the homicide team, including an assertive new detective, as they confront greed and violence in one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Azabu Getaway is the fifth novel in the award-winning Detective Hiroshi series.

Author : Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe
Publisher : BHC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643973241

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The Spirit Phone by Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe Pdf

"Startlingly original and strangely engrossing… We are no doubt witness to a new talent in the speculative fiction genre…” —Rex Pickett, author of Sideways Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla confront the enigma of Thomas Edison's new invention: a phone to communicate with the dead. It is August 1899, and Thomas Edison proclaims his most amazing invention yet: the Spirit Phone Model SP-1. At nearly the same time, a cocksure young mage named Aleister Crowley inexplicably teleports into the home of Edison’s archrival, renowned inventor Nikola Tesla. As insanity and suicide multiply among spirit phone users, Crowley and Tesla combine their respective skills in “magick” and technology to investigate the device’s actual origin and ultimate purpose. Embarking upon an adventure of astral travel, demonic invocations, and high-speed airship journeys, they are soon embroiled in a desperate race to stop the spirit phone's use by an unknown adversary to inaugurate a hell on earth from which none shall escape.

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942410201

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Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko Pdf

Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors willing to do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a porn studio where a brutal triple murder took place. The studio’s accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts, bayside docks and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy. As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl at the center of it all, whose name he doesn’t even know. He uncovers a human trafficking ring and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo’s power elite.

Author : Yuichiro Shimizu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350079571

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The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy by Yuichiro Shimizu Pdf

What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats", but until now, no historian has fully explained the historical origins of the mammoth Japanese executive state. In this ground-breaking study, translated into English for the first time, Yuichiro Shimizu traces the rise of the modern Japanese bureaucracy from the Meiji Restoration through the early 20th century. He reveals how the making of the bureaucracy was none other than the making of Japanese modernity itself. Through careful political analysis and vivid human narratives, he tells the dynamic story of how personal ambition, new educational institutions, and state bureaucratic structures interacted to make a modern political system premised on recruiting talent, not status or lineage. Bringing cutting-edge Japanese scholarship to a global audience, The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy is not only a reconceptualization of modern Japanese political history but an account of how the ideal of “pursuing one's own calling” became the foundational principle of the modern nation-state.

Author : Darius Mehri
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801442893

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Notes from Toyota-land by Darius Mehri Pdf

"Mehri documents the sophisticated "culture of rules" and organizational structure that combine to create a profound control over workers. The work group is cynically used to encourage employees to work harder and harder, he found, and his other discoveries confirmed his doubts about the working conditions under the Japanese Miracle. For example, he learned that male employees treated their female counterparts as short-term employees, cheap labor, and potential wives. Mehri also describes a surprisingly unhealthy work environment, a high rate of injuries due to inadequate training, fast line speeds, crowded factories, racism, and lack of team support. And in conversations with his colleagues, he uncovered a culture of intimidation, subservience, and vexed relationships with many aspects of their work and surroundings.

Author : Andrew E. Barshay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520253810

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The Social Sciences in Modern Japan by Andrew E. Barshay Pdf

"A stunning achievement as the first full account of social science in a non-Western society. Barshay tells an epic story of how a handful of Japanese intellectuals used social science to make sense of the new society into which they were moving. What they did helps us understand not only Japan, but the whole modern world."—Robert Bellah, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Tokugawa Religion and Imagining Japan

Author : T. Inagami,D. Hugh Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139442937

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The New Community Firm by T. Inagami,D. Hugh Whittaker Pdf

After sweeping all before it in the 1980s, 'Japanese management' ran into trouble in the 1990s, especially in the high-tech industries, prompting many to declare it had outlived its usefulness. From the late 1990s leading companies embarked on wide-ranging reforms designed to restore their entrepreneurial vigour. For some, this spelled the end of Japanese management; for others, little had changed. From the perspective of the community firm, Inagami and Whittaker examine changes to employment practices, corporate governance and management priorities, in this 2005 book, drawing on a rich combination of survey data and an in-depth study of Hitachi, Japan's leading general electric company and enterprise group. They find change and continuity, the emergence of a 'reformed model', but not the demise of the community firm. The model addresses both economic vitality and social fairness, within limits. This book offers unique insights into changes in Japanese management, corporations and society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016153442

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Tokyo Business Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942410065

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Tokyo's Mystery Deepens by Michael Pronko Pdf

What happens when large bugs get trapped on crowded Tokyo trains? How does allergy season affect Tokyo's millions? Ever wonder why Japanese love to take photos together or how everyone feels during rainy season? How is Tokyo made so compact and made as much from imagination as from concrete and steel? Longtime resident, writer and professor Michael Pronko shows just why Tokyo life is equal parts trial and joy. This collection offers up essential skills for living in the vastest, most crowded city in the world-sweating politely, suffering noise and glancing in mirrors--and muses over the minutest of daily details-window flowers, eye contact and small gestures of thanks. If you're traveling to Tokyo, these essays point you toward the undercurrents of life and if you've ever considered visiting Tokyo, these essays will give you more reasons to go. Tokyo's Mystery Deepens brings together essays from Pronko's monthly column in Newsweek Japan, which has remained highly popular with Japanese readers for the last ten years. Originally published in Japanese, these concise, pointed essays are available in English for the first time. As with the first collection, Beauty and Chaos, Pronko examines Tokyo as a city, a culture and an overpowering experience. Tokyo's Mystery Deepens taps into the enigmatic sides of Tokyo with humor, delicacy and a large dose of healthy confusion. Praise for Beauty and Chaos:"e;Japanese who are used to Tokyo are caught off guard by his conclusions derived from careful observation, and are struck dumb...Tokyo, the city we are so careless of, suddenly starts to become glorious. It is a wonder!"e; Chunichi Shimbun (Newspaper) (translated from Japanese version) "e;Giving up the bias and seeing the city with completely different standards, you will see the unexpected, attractive face of Tokyo. This book is a guide for rediscovering Tokyo that lets us see the city with unique new features."e; Nikkan Gendai (translated from Japanese version) Japanese version available from KADOKAWA Publishers as: a E a aa a aeZaaSae-aae*aa a zaaa a a -a -a ae'-)

Author : 横森理香
Publisher : Overlook Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106018818937

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Tokyo tango by 横森理香 Pdf

Saya is a blissfully feather-headed Tokyo college girl, talented at doing just enough work to pass the exams at a top-flight university, but ultimately "without a thought in her head." She worked as a hostess in a local bar at night, mindlessly turning tricks with aging businessmen to bring in enough cash to support her addiction to shopping and clubbing. Her freewheeling lifestyle takes an unexpected turn one night when she meets Bogey, a mysterious outsider and gambler who seems to be riding the crest of the wave that is Japans economic boom. "Somehow me and Bogey hit it off right from the word go; or as he put it, in his weird Japanese English, we were a just-meet feeling couple." As Saya is ensnared further and further into a world of deceit and high risk, we witness Yokomoris Tokyo; a city awash in the flood that money can bring and stirred by an undercurrent of soft corruption that threatens to slip an entire society away from its roots. Tokyo Tango is a modern romance that tells an age-old story of forbidden live brought to life under the bright lights of a city in the grip of decay. From the publisher: The wild story of a love affair between a school girl and a gambler, set against the boom and bust of the Japanese economy.

Author : Junichi Nishimura
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781462005604

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Mimi Tokyo Paris by Junichi Nishimura Pdf

Mimi considers herself to be TJ a typical Japanese person. At thirty years old, she has earned a master's degree in social work and has been making coffee for eight years at Doutor, a Japanese chain of coffee houses. She's sure she could get a better job if she tried, but she still wonders if she's wasting her life. Having saved enough money, Mimi embarks on a vacation to Paris, France a holiday that turns her life upside down. While experiencing France's art and culture, she meets Eddie, a Frenchmen enamored with all things Japanese. Though from different cultures and different worlds, the two fall in love, and Eddie returns with Mimi to Japan. But what promises to transform her life is her contact with all things Chinese. This growing dragon of a country threatens to swallow up its Asian neighbors, like Japan. Could China be the source of opportunity and fulfillment that Mimi is looking for? Mimi Tokyo Paris follows Mimi as she makes her life choices against the backdrop of her relationships; her story provides an introspective look at the Japanese culture and way of life.

Author : Ayse Bugra,Behlül Üsdiken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110800739

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State, Market and Organizational Form by Ayse Bugra,Behlül Üsdiken Pdf

Author : Samuel E. Martin
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781462910410

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Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary by Samuel E. Martin Pdf

Every serious student of Japanese needs a reliable and user-friendly dictionary in their collection. Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary, now with 30% more content, is a completely updated dictionary designed for students and business people who are living in Japan and using the Japanese language on a daily basis. Its greatest advantage is that it contains recent idiomatic expressions which have become popular in the past several years and which are not found in other competing dictionaries. The dictionary has been fully updated with the addition of recent vocabulary relating to computers, mobile phones, social media and the Internet. Other special features that set this dictionary apart include: Over 25,000 words and expressions including idioms and slang. User-friendly layout with main entries in color. Complete Japanese-English and English-Japanese sections. Romanized forms and the Japanese script are given for all Japanese words. A guide to pronunciation helps the user to pronounce Japanese words correctly. Different senses of each word are distinguished by multiple definitions.